Award-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has died aged 89. Best known for his novels including The Road and No Country For Old Men, McCarthy died at home on Tuesday (June 13) of natural causes.
Throughout his career, he wrote multiple novels, screenplays and short stories spanning the western and post-apocalyptic genres and was known for his desire for privacy and reportedly did not like to discuss writing.
His first novel The Orchard Keeper was published in 1965 and he went on to author several more books throughout the 1970s, including 1979’s Suttree.
